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Tuesday, January 31, 2006

The Real Coachella



After a flurry of hoaxes, the real Coachella Festival lineup has finally been released. And no, it's not quite like this hoax. But then again, it's not like this one either (too bad).

The L.A. Times gives some of the highlights:

Depeche Mode, Tool, Franz Ferdinand, Paul Oakenfold, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sigur Rós and Common are scheduled to play the seventh edition of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, which will take over the small desert town of Indio on April 29 and 30. Tickets go on sale Saturday.

More than 80 acts are on the bill. Among other notables: Matisyahu, TV on the Radio, Danger Mouse, Damien Marley, HARD-Fi, She Wants Revenge, Cat Power and the Like.

Depeche Mode, which will close the first night on the main stage, keeps alive the festival's tradition of revisiting musical heroes of the 1980s (past shows have featured the Cure, the Beastie Boys and the Pixies). Tool's set for the Sunday show would revisit the festival's first year, 1999, when that band memorably joined Rage Against the Machine on the closing night.

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